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Seattle Sculpture #3 by Peggy DePersia, guest blogger Theoretically it might not be deemed a ‘sculpture’ yet, it reads like one to me, jutting into space as it does above the Seattle landscape with its bird’s eye relationship to Puget Sound. On a recent self-guided tour of all things...

By Peggy DePersia, guest blogger Seattle Sculpture Part #2 The story is an interesting one and, for me, began in the early 1970’s with a trip to Berkeley, California. Go Figure and, welcome to the long and winding road back to Seattle and another approach to its love affair with...

by Peggy DePersia, guest blogger Given the associations I have made with the city of Seattle as well as it’s climate and weather from my earliest school girl discoveries, the result of elementary school geography studies, it seems appropriate and emblematic that a large scale, bright red,...

Happy Holidays to all DesignDestinations.org Readers It’s a funny time of year for me. Bittersweet. Missing those not with us. Remembering holidays of yesteryear. At the same time I love the new traditions being established and memories made. I try to remember advice from the Buddha. The Buddha...

Secret of Great Photography Revealed “ Today I’m going to share with you the number one bit of advice for making good photographs,” Reid Callanan, the Sante Fe Photography Workshop founder and class leader announced on the third day of a six day workshop I enjoyed in October. “Oh my gosh, I...

“People go to Florida to die. They go to San Miguel de Allende to live,” says the oft repeated saying about the over 500-year-old city in the central part of Mexico. I can see why people might want to live there. I traveled there in October to attend a photography workshop sponsored by the...

I love Chicago. It’s a constantly changing city with something new to check out every time I go there, providing cool stuff to photograph and write about. A recent trip is no exception. I wrote about and photographed a really fun Halloween Parade on Halstead. For images of this very creative...

I am shocked to learn that Halloween is so popular that it falls second only to Christmas in terms of total consumer retail spending. The simple holiday of my youth—a home made costume and a bag of candy—has morphed into big business. Goofy, but it sounds right what with expensive costumes,...

by Kate Dernocoeur, guest blogger The first time I saw Denali up close, it snuck up on me. In 2009, I had done some fancy four-wheel maneuvering with my cousin Mike and a group of new friends to his gold-panning acreage 17 miles or so beyond the pavement. We were way out on Petersville...

by Judy Bereza, guest blogger I’m not afraid to admit it: I’m a Disney World groupie. My husband and I not only have Disney World credit cards proudly displaying an image of that iconic mouse, but we have treated ourselves to annual passes. That doesn’t mean that we line up to ride Expedition...

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After years of writing about home design and fashion, volunteering in her community and raising a family, Susan is enjoying traveling and sharing her experiences on DesignDestinations.org.
Her mission: “Connect People to Places.”

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